Reactions to Twitter’s brand new Character Limit Top This Week’s Web News

recently in “Your faves are problematic” news, Louis C.K. and Mad guys creator Matthew Weiner, your time and effort has come. But in other news, Eminem possesses new track with Beyoncé, that is offering the internet one thing else to share. Will there be other things that had every person chatting the other day? Why, we’re glad you asked.

Trump’s Merger Mission

Just what occurred: how badly does the president hate CNN? adequate to possibly step over the line and restrict its business dealings? Let’s learn.

Exactly what actually occurred: AT&T has been doing foretells purchase CNN moms and dad business Time Warner for quite some time now—WIRED also arrived on the scene against it greater than a year ago—but this week, apparently away from nowhere, the efforts hit a major, unexpected snag.

FT Exclusive: The US is telling AT&T it must sell CNN before regulators will approve its deal with Time Warner https://t.co/wQozXAorxz

"The only reason you would divest CNN would be to kowtow to the president because he doesn't like the coverage," one source said. "It would send a chilling message to every news organization in the country." https://t.co/0opq7OiEqu

How dreadful could it be? Well, it depended in your political allegiance and your location, it seems, as you reporter found out when he called Alabama Republican figures to generally share the allegations.

"It was 40 years ago," Alabama Marion County GOP chair David Hall tells me. "I really don't see the relevance of it. He was 32. She was supposedly 14. She's not saying that anything happened other than they kissed."

More Hall: “The other women that they’re using to corrobrate: number one, one was 19, one was 17, one was 16. There’s nothing wrong with a 30-year-old single male asking a 19-year-old, a 17-year-old, or a 16-year-old out on a date."

If these allegations against Moore were true, Mitch McConnell's anti-Moore allies would have obviously found them and released them during the primary, Mobile County Republican chairman John Skipper tells me.

Roy Moore believes any homosexual act, an evil equal to bestiality, should be illegal. He thinks queer people can't be parents. He thinks marriage equality is worse than Dred Scott. He believes in no rights for trans folks. That it took ~this~ news for anyone to care is insane.

Twitter: Now with Two Times the Characters!

What took place: It finally arrived: Twitter now let’s every person state two times as much.

Just what actually occurred: It is a thing that everybody else literally knew had been coming—really, it’d been anticipated since September—but Twitter officially rolled out its new 280-character limit wide the other day, unleashing all method of coverage from the media enthusiastic about the illusion of modification. But just how did the latest character limit look at on Twitter it self?

I could just use the new 280 characters to express my love for garfield. what a funny, kind iconic character, shaping American newspaper strips and influencing millions, a marketing success, a riveting expression of midwestern america, he loves lasagna just like me

280 characters: im you but longerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Why was I given 280 characters?? This is too much responsibility. Someone deserves this more than me. I hardly have 140 characters’ worth of wisdom. Someone could be saying something super profound by now. All I got at the moment is Mars’ population consists entirely of robots…

Twitter went from 140 characters to 280 when all we really needed was like 150 to fit some extra periods and apostrophes here and there.

— daddy. but not like a real dad. i dont have a kid. (@Chazer11) November 8, 2017

(We additionally didn’t need 50-character display names, but which also occurred the other day.)

A Verified Debacle

Just what occurred: evidently, being truly a white supremacist is newsworthy in and of itself.

Exactly what actually took place: Doubling the quantity of characters per tweet was not the actual only real hot water Twitter squeezed itself in last week, because it proved. You realize that whole “verification check mark” thing which has been a thorn in the organization’s side since it began being rolled out a year ago? Well…

Twitter limited my account before because they said that I "offended the Twitter Community" but today Twitter gave "verified" status to racist fanatic Jason Kessler who said Heather Heyer "was a fat, disgusting Communist” and that her death “was payback time." Twitter Shame! @AP

Whilst the backlash got entirely swing, Twitter attempted to use those 280 figures to dig itself out of the gap that was rapidly forming. Somewhat unsuccessfully.

Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance. We recognize that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it. We have paused all general verifications while we work and will report back soon

We should’ve communicated faster on this (yesterday): our agents have been following our verification policy correctly, but we realized some time ago the system is broken and needs to be reconsidered. And we failed by not doing anything about it. Working now to fix faster. https://t.co/wVbfYJntHj

Heather Heyer was killed by a domestic terrorist for protesting the gathering organised by the man you just verified. You're verifying and endorsing who belong to the same ideology, the same cause, as terrorists.

It was honestly embarrassing to have been turned down for verification despite 10+ years in entertainment & activism and a follower count higher than many verified users. But then you started giving it to literal Nazis, so I'm actually good. Keep it.

Yeah. This is the ticket. I mean, it isn’t clear anyway from that tweet what is in fact being said or be it an recommendation or something like that else, but nevertheless, it is positively a admission. Maybe some body wish to explain, maybe?

I'd feel better about the song "Female" by Keith Urban if it wasn't written by the person who wrote God Made Girls. "Somebody's gotta wear a pretty skirt, somebody's gotta be the one to flirt". Come on.

Something’s without a doubt, nonetheless; regardless of how good or bad the track is (it’s bad), this is certainly probably the most mainstream attention for Keith Urban track in… forever? Don’t simply take this as a foolproof method to go back to relevance, faded music movie stars of yore.

The Takeaway: for individuals who had been already preparing to ask “But when do the males get their track?” don’t worry, you are currently covered. (outside, like, the remainder history of popular music.)